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=== Other children ===
Though [[Elend]] is his only known legitimate child, but he has many mistresses and sires many illegitimate children in an attempt to acquire [[Allomancy|Mistborn]].{{book ref|mb2|49}} His attempts are successful, and though among his many children, [[Zane]] is his only Mistborn,{{book ref|mb2|49}} his misting children number around 18.{{book ref|mb2|39}} Elend also describes his father as being 'very fond of skaa brothels' .{{book ref|mb2|26}}
Straff's proclivities regarding his mistresses are depraved, even for a Luthadel nobleman, describing one of his mistresses ([[Amaranta]]), who is 'creeping up on her late twenties' as having been 'quite attractive a decade before' but is now 'too old to be attractive' and states that he has usually 'got rid of most women long before they reached her age'.{{book ref|mb2|18}} He also parades a mistress who bares a resemblance to Vin, who is 'perhaps fifteen' before Elend and Vin, displaying casual cruelty in an effort to induce a reaction and intimidate them.{{book ref|mb2|27}}
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